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Well I agree with the sentiment of the post but at the time the Javelin was the star of the Ukraine war theater, it's actual cost was...hmm ....wait a second...oh...way way more.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2022/12/19/bang-for-your-buck-does-a-javelin-missile-really-cost-as-much-as-a-ferrari/
Geez, $240k for the reusable launcher and $200k per missle, with other similar but less effective missles costing $33k and RPGs (which have 300m range instead of 2500m range and won't kill the same level of armor) at an astonishing $80 a piece. That's more surprising to me, $80 is crazy cheap!
But damn, I wonder how much of the Javelin's price is actual cost vs being a monopoly.
If you’re talking about an rpg 7 it doesn’t have any fancy electronics or control systems. It’s unguided. It also hasn’t face the us military industrial complex price inflation.
It was overbuilt to fight the military russia claimed it had.
Come on Xiaomi, there's an opportunity here.
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First you have to slide to unlock the trigger, then watch an ad for 5 seconds, then watch another ad for 10 seconds before the electronics start working, then watch another ad in order to confirm a lock on a vehicle then, finally, you can opt to post a pre-launch photo of your viewfinder, which will be posted on the internet with a 10m precision metadata OR watch another, 30 second ad before firing!